Guitar Improvisation Workshop – 22nd May, 1.30-5.00pm
If you’re a guitar player who wants to be able to jam better with other musicians, or are perhaps interested in playing a different style of music but don’t know what to do on the fret board, or if you find yourself unable to come up with new ideas for soloing/ creating melodies, this workshop would be beneficial for you.
In the workshop, learn about various topics such as -
- How to create your own melodies, and make up interesting solos with feeling and expression to them.
- How to fit in to any impromptu musical scenario, applying appropriate stylistic awareness and melodic content. (e.g. Rock, jazz, pop, blues, metal, funk, traditional)
- Knowing the whole fret board, and being able to play a wide variety of chords, scales and arpeggios at any location on the neck, in any key.
- Following chord changes in a piece, to shape your melodies around an ensemble.
- Ear training, to hear and anticipate chord changes.
- Decorative performance techniques and their implementation to real musical situations. (e.g. vibrato, bending, trills, muting, dynamics)
- How to adequately voice melodies in your head.
- Making up your own sounds to incorporate into your improvising, to create your own style.
Study the cerebral elements which comprise improvisational thought structure, and learn of all the music theoretical devices employed by an improvising musician, such as what particular scales and arpeggios to use and how to implement them into your phrasing effectively.
The workshop is taught by Emmet Lagan, who has just finished a BA degree course in Music Performance. It will be a three and a half hour session, which includes a half hour break. Handout pages of particular important aspects taught in the workshop will be provided throughout, to aid future practice of concepts discussed.
Starting date 22nd May 2010
- £20 per person, all are welcome, although ideal for intermediate – advanced players
